Friday, February 13, 2004

Monday, February 09, 2004

Not enough flies? Spin good news until you're dizzy with CNN and crew ...

Not to say there isn't bad news as well...
(Hat tip Doug.)
Texans *do* play poker ;)

Sunday, February 08, 2004

HUMOROUS INTERLUDE: The Cartoon Laws of Physics
A doom fisking and lots of discussion...

Reconsidering Intelligence

David Warren points out the sad truth about intelligence:
There is also too little appreciation of what e.g. the military historian John Keegan has been stressing in his recent journalism. Reliable intelligence has rarely been available to any power in the world's history. It is by messing in with sheer brute force that one soon finds what is going on. And this is the Bush administration's greatest success: messing in. They have not waited for an American or European city to go up in radioactive smoke before doing something.
No pederasty here ... just move along now...

They have learned nothing...

and they have forgotten nothing.

The analogy of the shell game distracting from the pick-pocket pretty well puts our current disastrous mess in context...
Now, even ElBaradei gets it...